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SCUDDER, SAMUEL HUBBARD. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada with special reference to New England. Cambridge, Mass.: published by the author, 1889. Three volumes. Contemporary half maroon morocco over marbled paper boards, five raised bands, gilt titles and ruling to spine. 10 5/8 inches (27 cm). xxiv, 2 ff. [errata slips], 1958 pp. Complete with all plates, including the three portrait frontispieces, two folding maps, and seventy-four plates of butterflies and pupae (of which twenty-one are chromolithographic). Boards and extremities rubbed, joints slightly weakened, staining to endsheets, otherwise sound.